June 2025
Books on Screen
June 2025

June's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of Prime Video's "We Were Liars" and Netflix's "The Survivors"; the season premieres of "Grantchester" on PBS "Masterpiece" and "The Buccaneers" on Apple TV+; the season finale of "The Walking Dead: Dead City" on AMC; the continuation of Hulu's "Nine Perfect Strangers" and Max's "And Just Like That..."; the films The Life of Chuck and How to Train Your Dragon in theaters and Pie to Die For: A Hannah Swensen Mystery on Hallmark Mystery; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Snow White, The Friend, The Monkey, In the Lost Lands and A Working Man.
In Theaters
The Life of Chuck
Release Date: Friday, June 6th (limited); Friday, June 13th (wide)
Based on: "The Life of Chuck" from IF IT BLEEDS by Stephen King
How to Train Your Dragon
Release Date: Friday, June 13th (wide)
Based on: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON by Cressida Cowell
Meeting with Pol Pot
Release Date: Friday, June 13th (limited)
Based on: WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, by Elizabeth Becker
Hot Milk
Release Date: Friday, June 27th (limited)
Based on: HOT MILK by Deborah Levy
On TV
Film Release
Pie to Die For: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
Air Date: Sunday, June 22nd at 8pm ET/PT on Hallmark Mystery
Based on: The Hannah Swensen Mystery series by Joanne Fluke
Series Premieres
"The Survivors"
Release Date: Friday, June 6th on Netflix (all episodes of Season 1 will be available)
Based on: THE SURVIVORS by Jane Harper
"We Were Liars"
Release Date: Wednesday, June 18th on Prime Video (all episodes of Season 1 will be available)
Based on: WE WERE LIARS by E. Lockhart
"Nautilus"
Air Dates: Sundays at 9pm ET/PT on AMC; Series Premiere on June 29th (the first two episodes of Season 1 will air)
Based on: TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne
Season Premieres
"Grantchester"
Air Dates: Sundays at 9pm ET/PT on PBS "Masterpiece"; Season 10 Premiere on June 15th
Based on: The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie
"The Buccaneers"
Release Dates: Wednesdays on Apple TV+; Season 2 Premiere on June 18th
Based on: The unfinished novel of the same name by Edith Wharton
Series Finale
"Carême" (8-episode limited series)
Release Dates: Wednesdays on Apple TV+; Series Finale on June 11th
Based on: COOKING FOR KINGS: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef, by Ian Kelly
Season Finales
"Sherlock & Daughter"
Air Dates: Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT on The CW; Season 1 Finale on June 11th
Based on: The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Scrublands"
Release Dates: Thursdays on AMC+; Season 2 Finale on June 19th
Based on: SILVER by Chris Hammer
"The Walking Dead: Dead City"
Air Dates: Sundays at 9pm ET/PT on AMC; Season 2 Finale on June 22nd
Based on: The comic book series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard
Ongoing Series
"Nine Perfect Strangers"
Release Dates: Wednesdays on Hulu; Season 2 continues
Based on: NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
"Sullivan's Crossing"
Air Dates: Wednesdays at 8pm ET/PT on The CW; Season 3 continues
Based on: The Sullivan's Crossing series by Robyn Carr
"And Just Like That..."
Release Dates: Thursdays on Max; Season 3 continues
Based on: SEX AND THE CITY by Candace Bushnell
"Murderbot"
Release Dates: Fridays on Apple TV+; Season 1 continues
Based on: The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
On DVD and Blu-ray
The Friend
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Tuesday, June 10th
Based on: THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez
In the Lost Lands
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Tuesday, June 10th
Based on: The short story "In the Lost Lands" by George R. R. Martin
A Working Man
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Tuesday, June 10th
Based on: LEVON'S TRADE by Chuck Dixon
The Monkey
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Tuesday, June 24th
Based on: The short story “The Monkey” by Stephen King
Snow White
DVD Release Date: Tuesday, June 24th
Based on: The fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm